What NZers think of top Labour MPs

The Taxpayers’ Union Curia poll asks every month what NZers think of the significant party leaders. From time to time we also ask about other politicians. The data above is the results for ten senior Labour MPs (one nor retired). You can see in which month we asked about them.

The only Labour MP who had had a positive net favourability (just) is Chris Hopkins who was at +1% in July 22. Next closest is Andrew Little at -6% in December 2021. Note that this was before Labour started to tank in the polls so is probably lower today.

Megan Woods a year ago was at -13% and Grant Robertson just last month was -15%.

After that you have Kelvin Davis at -18%, Stuart Nash -29%, Nanaia Mahuta -31%, Willie Jackson -32%, Photo Williams -38% and Trevor Mallard 10 months ago at -54%.

This data suggests Chris Hopkins is the logical choice for Labour. But it isn’t quite as simple as that. Firstly the data is six months old, and also a new Prime Minister will have an opportunity to win more people over, whomever they are.